Brett
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Emirates Plays With Fire, Announces Newark to Athens Flight
You might think that with a new, anti-globalist administration in the US, foreign airlines might want to tiptoe carefully until they figure…
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Are Bathroom Lines Allowed on International Flights? The Definitive Answer
When I wrote up my recent trip to Cancún last week, the big discussion centered around the fact that we weren’t allowed…
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Cranky on the Web: United’s Corporate Guarantee
United Bolsters Reliability Guarantee to Its Corporate Travel Customers – Skift I’ll admit it’s a stretch to include this here since my…
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3 Links I Love: BA CEO Interview, American is Airline of the Year, Buy On Board Problems
This week’s featured link: British Airways CEO Interview: How to Bring a Low-Cost Mindset to a Legacy Airline – Skift This is…
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American Rolls Out Basic Economy With a Slightly Softer But Blunter Approach
When United rolled out Basic Economy last year, it got a lot of flak for how it handled it (including some right…
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Grand Velas Riviera Maya and the Long Flight Home (Trip Report)
Yesterday I talked about my rough experience getting to Cancun. Fortunately that was the low point of the trip. My stay at…
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My First Southwest International Flight to Cancun Could Have Gone Better (Trip Report)
You may know that I’m one of the Condé Nast Top Travel Specialists. When the founder of that list, Wendy Perrin, left…
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Southwest Reveals Its Ft Lauderdale Plans as a Four-Way Battle Heats Up
Southwest extended its schedule into the summer recently, and the biggest winner was clearly Ft Lauderdale. Southwest is adding six new cities…
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3 Links I Love: The American Uniform Problem, Flying a Yak, JetBlue 100 Percent Wifi
This week’s featured link: Full Text: Twin Hill’s letter to American Airlines’ attendants – USA Today If you haven’t been following, there…
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United is Retiring Its 747s By the End of the Year, and I’m Glad
You can’t call yourself an airline dork if you don’t love the 747, and I can imagine that many of you shook…
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The Plan to Fix JFK Focuses on the Wrong Thing
We’ve heard a lot about the billions of dollars being sunk into New York’s LaGuardia Airport, but what about JFK? Oh don’t…
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How Can We Prevent Another Ft Lauderdale-Style Shooting?
In the wake of the recent shooting in the baggage claim area in Ft Lauderdale Airport’s Terminal 2, there are a lot…